I haven't posted  here for some time but with dealing with COVID lockdown here in Melbourne for the 4th time in about 18 months, I feel it is starting to impact on my mental health.     I live by myself and find it really hard to deal with not having family support and very limited network of really good friends it does take its toll.  There was one person I did ring and try and make a conversation who said to me that she didn't really need to have people ringing her as she had family.    Another person insisted on wanting to come to my place when there was restrictions of not travelling more than 5kms if a person did this the police could be called in and a fine issued.   Of course I got more upset with people persisting like this made me have anxiety problems.      Although I started  my treatment for lymphoma in August 2019 and now nearly at the end of my treatment it makes you tired as well as depressed.  I am glad I am well now in the way I can do more things now that before.   The loneliness and the isolation can be very hard, to the stage of me going for walks to get a cup of coffee and be able to sit in a local park and just watch other people does help sometimes.     But overall I believe unless people have gone thru cancer at all in their lives they just don't understand sometimes what us cancer warriors go thru.  I am not the type of person that will say why me or its not fair I got this cancer but would like to know from others how they deal with their low periods.           ... View more

I would like to know how people dealing with themselves when they suddenly gets quite irritable with other people.   I am currently going thru maintenance treatment for my lymphoma.  I am usually a fun loving person with an happy positive attitude to things but apparently over Christmas and the New Year I have suddenly become quite irritable with people I don't even know and I now feel I am very conscious of what I accept from people and what I don't.  I went out on Christmas Day and was quite irritable and argumentive about something and wish it had not happened.  I am now making sure I have plenty to sleep and not to get myself exhausted because I think that what starts it up and whether this is because of the cancer treatment as well.  What do other people think and has this happened to you.             ... View more

I would like to get some feedback from fellow cancer warriors that have had bad  leg pain as a side effects from chemo.     I could not walk for quite a while due to the cancer cells being shed into my blood stream, the pain was like having gout some days I could hardly get out of bed.  I have now excess weight on the tops of my legs which is effecting my knee joints which get arthitis,  I am heavier now than when I was having chemo.  I have managed to lose nearly 3.8 kilos which does help with the knee pain.  I am now trying to walk at least 30 minutes my doctor has now given me Allurpinoi tablets which has helped at lot.   Thank you for your advice in advance.   ... View more

I am presently going thru immunotherapy after getting non hodgkins lymphoma I am very worried about getting COVID-19.   I have had only two sessions of Rixitimab which boost my immune system which I believe is only 80% effective.   Before getting lymphoma I got pneumonia and ended up in hospital after only three weeks with also a broken rib.  I had no way of getting well as my immune system was impaired, this is what worries me about the virus, but cant help worrying and getting anxious when I am in crowded area.  How do other people cope  with this and are other cancer patients affected as well  or just lymphoma as it is cancer of this lymphatic system. ... View more